Charles Sidney Winder

Charles Sidney Winder (18 October 1829-9 August 1862) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Charles Sidney Winder was born in Easton, Maryland in 1829, a nephew of future Confederate admiral Franklin Buchanan and a cousin of future general John H. Winder. He graduated from West Point in 1850 and saw action against Native Americans in Washington while serving in the US Army, and he resigned from the army to join the Confederate States Army at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. He commanded a brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia under Stonewall Jackson, and he fought at Cedar Mountain in the Second Bull Run campaign of late 1862. Winder was mangled when a Union shell hit his left side, and he died from his wounds.